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Presents the benefits of supporting prospective parents, offers tips for building connections among support group participants, and outlines ways to help prospective parents develop their capacity to parent a child through adoption, foster care, or kinship care.

Provides an overview of the benefits of providing services to support adoptive, foster, and kinship families as well as examples of how various jurisdictions offer support.

Provides an overview of adoptive families’ challenges and the supports they most want.

Explains that addressing the unmet financial needs of relative caregivers is crucial for sustaining kinship care and ensuring the caregiver’s ability to raise the children under their care effectively.

Offers advice for sites that might be interested in implementing Family Group Decision Making, based on lessons learned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.

Provides a brief overview of how the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska planned to implement Family Group Decision Making as part of its work with the QIC-AG.

Explores how Wisconsin implemented Adoption and Guardianship Enhanced Support (AGES). Enables sites to determine if the intervention would work for their jurisdiction and prepare for implementation.

Provides a brief overview of how Wisconsin planned to implement Adoption and Guardianship Enhanced Support (AGES) as part of its work with the QIC-AG. Explains how the program offered individualized assessments of the families’ needs and strengths; identified family-specific goals; assistance in navigating resources and services, and offered targeted advocacy.

Highlights supports and services for kinship caregivers, training for caseworkers and examples of successful kinship care programs.

Helps child welfare and adoption professionals expand their cultural competence and skills when working with LGBTQ+ parents. Examines laws and policies and provides tips to effectively engage this vital community. Has useful information for post-adoption support programs although content is mostly geared to recruitment of families.